Support Technology Commericalization and Entrepreneurship

Integrate tours into new faculty and staff orientation programming.
Offer customized college and division tours on a rotating basis, so existing faculty and staff can learn about these opportunities.
Expand tours to student clubs and majors on a regular basis.

Create a list of our current resources.
Develop a process whereby relevant new equipment and resources are automatically added to the inventory as they are purchased, so the list stays current.
Provide information about how to access equipment and resources.

Provide training for faculty and staff about how to be competitive in applying for large government or non-governmental organization (NGO) grants in the magnitude of $10,000 or more.
Develop model language for tenure and promotion documents to acknowledge large-grant applications as research output regardless of the final application success.
Incentivize cohort or interdisciplinary large-grant applications across departments, schools, colleges, universities, external organizations and employers, perhaps through competition for course releases or other financial support.
Investigate the return on investment for subscribing to a funding database like Clarivate’s Pivot-RP.

Connect student and faculty expertise and university laboratories and equipment to develop prototypes and to provide research expertise for employers.
Develop a list of existing products developed by students, faculty and staff.
Partner with our experts at JVIC, efactory and elsewhere to offer internal and external training.
Coordinate with the Office of Strategic Communication to highlight and celebrate new product development within and beyond the university community.

Provide training for students, faculty and staff about how to license and patent new products, processes, etc.
Develop model language for tenure and promotion documents to acknowledge licensing and patenting activities as research output.